Amazon Applied Scientist II - Ranking & Recommendation 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

251286047

As an Applied Scientist, you will:
- Push the boundaries of real-world ranking, recommendation, and optimization systems
- Champion and define best practices to maximize learnings while mentoring more junior scientists and engineers.- Create intellectual property, influence others while demonstrating significant creativity and being vocally self-critical.- Translate metrics & signals into actionable plans to calibrate individual components.- Operate hands-on and as an implementor of algorithms and models delivered to production systems.

- 3+ years of building models for business application experience
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development